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Tuesday August 14th

Lay by for ouer men How we had Sent after the Desarter
on the 7th thes Indians has not Live at the town Sence the
Smallpoks was so bad abut 4 years ago thay Burnt thare
town and onley live about it in the winter and in the Spring
Go all of them in the praries after the Buflow and dos not
Return untill the fall to meet the french traders thay Rase
no Corn nor aney thing excep Som times thay Rase Som Corn
and then the Ottoe nation Comes and Cuts it Down while
thay are in the praries